At Dīpaṃkara's Own Presence, the Prediction

Dīpaṃkara (錠光, "Lamp-Light," here transliterated by an alternate rendering of his name) is one of the most storied figures in the entire Buddhist canon — the buddha before whom Śākyamuni, in a celebrated past life recounted across many Buddhist traditions, spread his own hair over the mud so the buddha would not soil his feet, and received in return the very prediction of his own future buddhahood. Fazang reads this single verse's brief allusion to that famous episode as trusting the audience's own prior familiarity with it — the entire jātaka narrative compressed into "made offerings and attained his own prediction" — while "Treatise-Master Moon" (論師月) remains, per Fazang, a more obscure figure whose precise identity is less certain than Dīpaṃkara's own, possibly an honorific epithet for a specific bodhisattva known for composing treatises rather than a personal name in the ordinary sense.